A carpenter is known by his chips.
I row after health like a waterman.
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.